You won’t BELIEVE what they tell me!

All our kids are named Cooper. I’d never think of putting a 12-year-old through what I went through. Phew, what a relief to learn at a School Of Life event that Ed Balls isn’t a follower of the ‘it’ll do them good in the long run’ parenting philosophy.

I am not particularly tall and I am very good at navigating with my head down with a baseball cap. I look like a criminal who is about to steal something, but when I take my cap off, people are generally nice. Daniel Radcliffe reveals his favourite ploy for dodging over-enthusiastic fans.

I only passed my driving test at 56. My children were vile – every time they got into the car, they crossed themselves like Portuguese footballers. She may be a literary legend but Jilly Cooper reveals while promoting her new novel Mount that her kids are not above taking the mick out of their mum.

The French call me Dame Helen, but they pronounce it ‘Damn, Helen’. It doesn’t sound very good – it sounds like I’m being told off all the time. Dame Helen Mirren reveals one of the unexpected side effects of earning a noble title.

Make sure you have zoom... Fifty Shades Of Grey star Jamie Dornan, right, makes a cheeky comment on the size of Russell Brand’s manhood when the cameras aren’t rolling on the set of the Jonathan Ross show.

Maggie Smith didn’t like me. At one point, I had to pick her up in a dance scene above my head, and my hands kept slipping over her knockers. She said, ‘You do that again, I’ll kill you.’ Sir Michael Gambon explains why he and fellow acting great Dame Maggie Smith aren’t exactly bosom buddies.